European Science Foundation has threatened to take legal action against the author of this opinion article, because of the statement that the ESF/FCT evaluation process in flawed. It has contacted her in the following terms: Dear Amaya Moro-Martin, The European Science Foundation hereby requests that you retract the following allegation contained within your opinion piece published on 8 October in Nature (Volume 514, Issue 7521). [Portugal may now have to close half of its research units] because of a flawed evaluation process supported by the European Science Foundation. The European Science Foundation refutes any allegation that the process was flawed and considers that the statement cited above is slanderous, as the independent work performed in the framework of the evaluation of FCT research units followed the best international practices. esf.org/serving-science/fct-rd-units-evaluation-by-esf.html. While the European Science Foundation is cited in your paper, it is highly regrettable that no one from our organisation was interviewed and no request for clarification made. In addition, and as you may be aware, the Portuguese national union for higher education has launched a formal legal action on the evaluation process, and this has not yet come to a conclusion. If your allegation is not publically retracted in Nature, the European Science Foundation will be compelled to take appropriate legal action. Dr. Jean-Claude Worms Head of Science Support Office European Science Foundation [email protected] I wrote the following comment on nature: I have no doubt the FCT/ESF evaluation is severely flawed. Therefore, I kindly ask European Science Foundation to include me in their lawsuit as well. I urge you to do the same, in solidarity with astrophysicist Amaya Moro-Martin and to stand for better science policies in Europe.
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